Because of you the LORD your God was angry with me and solemnly declared that I would not cross the Jordan River to enter the fertile land which he is giving you.

I will die in this land and never cross the river, but you are about to go across and occupy that fertile land.

but the land that you are about to enter is a land of mountains and valleys, a land watered by rain.

The LORD your God takes care of this land and watches over it throughout the year.

and so I have come down to rescue them from the Egyptians and to bring them out of Egypt to a spacious land, one which is rich and fertile and in which the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites now live.

Please give us this land as our property, and do not make us cross the Jordan River and settle there."

It was then that I promised to take them out of Egypt and lead them to a land I had chosen for them, a rich and fertile land, the finest land of all.